This is one goofy fun video. The parents and kids audience, obvious lip syncing, dry ice fog. Rick Neilsen looks like Pee Wee Herman.
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Loading... Date: Friday, August 6.
Batting stars: Zoilo Versalles was 2-for-5 with a three-run homer (his fourteenth) and a stolen base (his fourteenth), scoring twice. Bob Allison was 1-for-3 with a two-run homer (his eighteenth) and a walk, scoring twice. Don Mincher was 3-for-4.
Pitching stars: Jim Merritt pitched six innings, giving up two runs on four hits and two walks with four strikeouts. Dwight Siebler pitched 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and two walks.
Opposition stars: Felix Mantilla was 2-for-3 with a home run (his fourteenth) and a walk. Lenny Green was 2-for-5 with a double and a run. Jim Gosger was 0-for-1 with three walks and a run.
The game: It was close most of the way. Tony Oliva singled in a run in the third to put the Twins up 1-0, but Mantilla homered leading off the fourth to tie it 1-1. Merritt delivered an RBI single in the fifth to make it 2-1 but the Red Sox again immediately responded, as Green doubled and later scored on an error to tie it 2-2 in the top of the sixth. In the sixth, however, the Twins scored six times to put the game away. Allison hit a two-run homer and later Versalles hit a two-out three-run homer to make the score 8-2. The Red Sox never threatened to get back into the game.
Of note: Oliva was 1-for-5 with an RBI. Jimmie Hall was 1-for-4 with a run.
Record: The win made the Twins 70-39. Baltimore lost 9-4 to Kansas City, so the Twins lead increased to 6.5 games.
Notes: Oliva was now hitting .302. Hall remained at .304...Harmon Killebrew sat this game out, with Mincher playing first and Rich Rollins at third...This was Merritt's second major league start (his first had come August 2) and first major league win. He made nine starts for the Twins in 1965 and pitched well in them, going 4-3, 3.55. He then went to the bullpen and pitched even better, going 1-1 with two saves and a 1.35 ERA...Lenny Green, as you probably know, was an original Twin, coming with the team from Washington in 1961. He became a starting outfielder in 1960 and was a fine player from 1960-62. He slumped in 1963, however, batting only .239, and was traded the following year. 1965 was his last season as at least a semi-regular player. He bounced back pretty well, hitting .276 with an OPS of .790, but the next year he hit .241 in only 133 at-bats and he would play only a couple more years. His drop-off was probably due to age: he was already twenty-seven in 1960.
So it's Kanuary.
Ben Shibe (1838)
Red Donahue (1873)
Bobby Burke (1907)
Randy Gumpert (1918)
Chico Carrasquel (1926)
Frank Sullivan (1930)
Joe Amalfitano (1934)
Don Nottebart (1936)
Paul Ratliff (1944)
Kurt Bevacqua (1947)
Charlie Spikes (1951)
Alan Embree (1970)
Mark Wohlers (1970)
Erubiel Durazo (1974)
Brandon Duckworth (1976)
Juan Rincon (1979)
Ben Shibe was the owner of the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901 until his death in 1922. Shibe Park was named in his honor.
What is your attitude on deleting songs from an album on your song library? With I-tunes, it’s so simple to eliminate the songs you don’t like that you can basically re-create any album to your liking. Don’t think Yellow Submarine belongs on Revolver? One key stroke and it’s gone. Me? I’m an album guy and for the most part I don’t eliminate songs from albums. If I want to listen to an album, then I have to listen to the way the artist/producer envisioned it (doesn’t mean I don’t use the skip button if I want to). If an album only has one or two songs I like and the rest has no interest I will take those good songs and put them on some “greatest hits” collection. I will admit that in a few cases I have found a song so odious that I’ve had to delete it; but that’s very rare.
This, of course, brings me to Guided By Voices. Robert Pollard has penned, recorded, and released thousands of songs. Even if he batted a phenomenal .600, that’s literally hundreds of songs that are crap. And believe me, even a freak like me will admit there’s a lot of crap GBV songs out there -- dude could seriously use an editor. But then who knows? One person’s garbage song is another’s treasure.
The album Propeller is a great example of this. Released on 1992, this was the album that finally caught the eye of some record company swell from NYC and Guided By Voices got invited to play in the big City with a resulting record contract. It’s the record that propelled (my pun) GBV from obscure Dayton, OH band to at least a cultish indie-darling band. The album is pretty damn good, but as I mentioned above, there’s some just awful songs on it too. I’ve kept all the GBV songs on I-tunes by album but I’ve also created playlists of their best songs (still way into the multi-hundreds) and sometimes created albums that are all killer, no filler. Propeller is one album that is a go to. If interested below is a playlist for Propeller that in my opinion is much more listenable. Perhaps create it on Spotify and give it a listen.
So drop your lists, and share your attitude about changing albums on your personal song library, do you create albums based on how they should have been released?
| Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox |
| Weedking |
| Quality of Armor |
| Metal Mothers |
| Unleashed! The Large-Hearted Boy |
| Red Gas Circle |
| Exit Flagger |
| 14 Cheerleader Coldfront |
| Ergo Space Pig |
| Circus World |
| On the Tundra |
Date: Thursday, August 5.
Batting stars: Joe Nossek was 2-for-3 with a three-run homer, his second. Bob Allison was 2-for-4 with a triple and a walk, scoring twice and driving in one. Tony Oliva was 1-for-3 with two walks and a run.
Pitching star: Johnny Klippstein struck out two in 2.1 scoreless innings, giving up only a walk.
Opposition stars: Ken Hamlin was 3-for-4 with a home run (his fourth) and two runs. Woodie Held was 1-for-3 with a three-run homer, his twelfth. Joe Cunningham was 2-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in one.
The game: Aided by an error, a wild pitch, and a passed ball, the Twins scored three runs in the second to take a 3-0 lead. They added three more in the third on Nossek's three-run homer to make it 6-0. Each team scored once in the fourth and Held hit a three-run homer in the sixth to cut the Twins' lead to 7-4. The Senators would never get closer than three runs and did not get the tying run up to bat.
Of note: Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-5 with a home run, his thirteenth. Rich Rollins was 2-for-5 with a double. Jimmie Hall was 1-for-4 with two runs. Jim Kaat struck out seven in 6.2 innings, giving up five runs on eight hits and no walks.
Record: The win made the Twins 69-39. Baltimore did not play, so the Twins' lead over the Orioles increased to 5.5 games.
Notes: Oliva and Hall were both now batting .304...Joe Nossek hit the second of his three career home runs in this game. His next and last homer would come in 1966...The top three batters in the Washington lineup went 6-for-12 with two home runs and a double. The rest of the lineup went 2-for-23...You don't often see a first baseman batting leadoff, but Joe Cunningham did it for the Senators in this game. He was a starter for the Cardinals from 1958-61 and for the White Sox in 1962, but missed a couple of months in 1963 due to a broken collarbone and was a part-time player after that. He was pretty good, making the all-star team in 1959 (when he hit .345 and led the league in OBP at .453) and twice finishing in the top twenty in MVP voting. His career numbers were .291/.403/.417. His career ended in 1966, after which he was hired by the Cardinals and was at various times a minor league manager and coach and also worked in the front office.
It's a FMD video cross link!! From Propeller.
Sound quality isn't the greatest but a good version nonetheless. In the upper pantheon of GBV songs.
(2 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... Ira Thomas (1881)
Amos Strunk (1889)
Art Ehlers (1897)
Prince Oana (1910)
Chris Pelekoudas (1918)
Dave Leonhard (1941)
Senichi Hoshino (1947)
Mike Caldwell (1949)
Leon Roberts (1951)
Jeff Treadway (1963)
Jimmy Anderson (1976)
Chone Figgins (1978)
Carlos Ruiz (1979)
Ubaldo Jimenez (1984)
Art Ehlers did not play in the majors, but he spent his life in baseball. He owned several minor league teams at various times and was the general manager of the Philadelphia Athletics and the Baltimore Orioles. He also was a longtime scout for the Orioles.
Prince Oana played in the minors for twenty-three years, batting .304. He also had a pitching record of 80-54.
Chris Pelekoudas was a National League umpire from 1960-1975. He is best remembered for his run-ins with Gaylord Perry over the latter's use of illegal substances on the baseball.
Senichi Hoshino is a long-time player, manager, and executive in Japanese baseball.
We also want to wish a happy birthday to Rhubarb_Runner’s daughter.
Yes. That would just be a coaxial cable, sir.
Pavement gets classified as a slacker band or lo-fi. But man they could also jam too. This one rocks!
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